“Later,” Jesus explains, “after not many days, the younger son gathered all things together and traveled abroad into a distant country, and there squandered his property by living a debauched life.”
Lu 15:11-16 —A wayward son squandered his inheritance on a debauched life (“A man had two sons,” “the younger one,” “squandered,” “a debauched life,” “to herd swine,” “carob pods” study notes on Lu 15:11-16, nwtsty)
Foreign observers usually had a negative opinion of Mongolian monks, condemning them as lazy, ignorant, corrupt, and debauched, but the Mongolian people did not concur.
(Matthew 25:41, 46) How severe, then, will be the judgment of so-called Christian leaders who blindly lead their blinded flocks away from the high moral standards of God’s Kingdom into the permissive, debauched ways of this world!